Single-flavor heavy baryons in a strong magnetic field

TL;DR

This paper investigates how strong magnetic fields influence the properties of single-flavor heavy baryons, specifically $ ext{Ω}_{ ext{ccc}}$ and $ ext{Ω}_{ ext{bbb}}$, using a quark-diquark model and Schrödinger equations.

Contribution

It develops a systematic formalism for analyzing two-body baryon systems in magnetic fields and compares the magnetic effects on different heavy baryons.

Findings

$ ext{Ω}_{ ext{bbb}}$ orbital properties are unaffected by magnetic fields.

$ ext{Ω}_{ ext{ccc}}$ becomes more tightly bound under magnetic influence.

Magnetic-spin effects dominate over magnetic-orbital effects.

Abstract

In this work, we study the properties of single-flavor heavy baryons, $\Omega_{\rm ccc}$ and $\Omega_{\rm bbb}$, in a strong magnetic field. For that sake, we simply treat the baryons as quark-diquark two-body systems, and a systematic formalism is developed to deal with two-body Schr$\ddot{\text o}$dinger equations in a magnetic field. It is found that: 1. The orbital properties of $\Omega_{\rm bbb}$ are almost not affected by the magnetic field. 2. $\Omega_{\rm ccc}$ is more tightly bound in the presence of a magnetic field. 3. The magnetic-spin effect dominates over the magnetic-orbital effect. Applying to peripheral heavy ion collisions, $\Omega_{\rm ccc}$ is much better than $\Omega_{\rm bbb}$ to explore the magnetic effect, and the discovery of $\Omega_{\rm ccc}$ could be more promising.